Less than one in five were able to identify the ammonite, Britain's most common fossil, and while seven out of 10 correctly named the woodlouse, some people thought it was an earwig, a beetle or even a slug.

1 Earwigs in your dahlias and chrysanthemums - as these spectacular late summer flowers get into their best flowering period, you can bet your bottom dollar that the local earwig populations will be enjoying the flowers as well.

Sadly, he was just too late to save these insects from extinction, and all he found were earwig remains with tell-tale mouse toothmarks Head of science John Catherall with his winning class of third year pupils in 1986.

She has written and illustrated three children's books - If I Were a Crocodile, Don't Step on That Earwig and The Martians Have Taken My Brother - all are published through Century Hutchinson and Red Fox.

Marc Forster (the film's director) had the idea that I'd be fitted for this earwig, and Emma would pre-record all of her narration so that I could actually have that on the day that I was acting in the scenes,'' Ferrell explains.

Sitting in an out-of-the-way football ground, trying not to earwig as a mobile-friendly youngster conveyed the score to his mother, recently provided a jolting reminder of how rapidly the world of communications is galloping along.

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